The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Tho rubber industry in this count

Tho rubber industry in this country
affords employment to about twenty
five thousand workmen.
One OF the glaciers of the Kinchin-
junga, peak whose summit is $4,000
feet above the sea level, has vertical
height of IA, 900 feet.
"A large piece of meteoric iron has
been found in bed of tertiary Ignite
in Upper Austria. This is the first find
of that sort in distinct geological peri
DDS, proof that meteoric stones fell
also in former periods of the earth's
history.
The Bo tree of Amarapoora, in
Burmah, is about 2,170 years old, and
it can be traced in historic documents
as far back as 1872 A. D. Other trees
are believed to be older, African and
Californian specimens being computed
at 1000 years, but there is no certain
evidence of it.-ArbansaU 7raUeler.
An officer of the Bombay Civil
Service who made vacation tour in
Manchuria last summer, calls that re-
gion the Manitoba of Asia. In the
basin of the Hun river he collected five
kinds of lily of the valley, and found
whole hill-slopes white with the BIOS
SONS of that plant.-M Y Ledger.
There could be no more impressive
illustration of the rapid growth of the
new South than the statement made by
the Manufacturers Record, of Balti-
more, that the new enterprises organ
lied inn he South, the old plants re-
newed and the mills rebuilt represented
capital of S161, 1872. 900 for the last six
months. as against 1868, 61S, 200 during
the first six months of 1886.
Before the beginning of the histor-
ical period considerable skill in rope
making had been acquired, so that it
must be classed among the oldest of the
arts. The existing relics of the ancient
Egyptians include sculptures showing
the process of manufacture practiced
moro than 1000 years ago, while the
Oldest records of that people represent
well-made ropes of great strength.
Flax and the fibers of the date tree were
employed for these ropes, but grasses
and the hides of animals were probably
among the first materials used.-Ar-
EansaW Traveller.
"A new departure in the line of
shopping for out-of-town families has
been inaugurated in New York of late.
The plan is that of the shopping bureau,
managed by woman of business turn
and gifted with tact for getting on with
people MS well as purchasing judgment.
To her, one rnay mail IN order for silks,
gloves. laces, jewelry, bonnets-any
thing that requires careful supervision
in the buying, which order will be
turned over to corps of regularly en-
ployed purchasers, women all, whose
business it is to look to the interest OF
the far-way household.-St Louis Re
publican.
The latest statistics concerning the
Pasteur Institute for the treatment of
hydrophobia show that up to the end of
December, 1886, the number of patients
who had been bitten by animals un-
doubtedly mad was two thousand one
hundred and sixty-four. Of these,
twenty-nine died. Before Pasteur's
system was devised and used, the NOR
tality among persons bitten by rabid
animals was thought to be sixteen per
cent, at which rate the number of
deaths among his patients would have
been three hundred and forty-six. in
stead of only twenty-ninc. Recently
Pasteur has somewhat changed his
method and applied more intensive
treatment, as he callsit, in all specially
grave cases.-N 7. Ledger.